diving suits

I've been down myself in a diving-suit, for that matter.Cited from Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

He ran to get a gun and his diving suit."Don't try to go out!" warned the professor.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood

We can't climb the sides of the wreck, and it will be impossible to lower her ladder over the side.However, I think we had better get into the diving suits and take a closer look.…Cited from Tom Swift & his Submarine Boat, by Victor Appleton

Then, feeling along her steel sides, he led the boys through the inky blackness to the water chamber by which entrance could be had to the interior.In a few minutes all three were safely inside and had removed their diving suits.The others crowded about, anxious to learn what had happened.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood

"Then come along, professor, and we'll go put on our diving suits."Arriving at the wardrobe, I saw that neither my companions nor any crewmen would be coming with us on this excursion.…Cited from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

They were caught in a sea of boiling water and imprisoned between big fields of ice.By means of strong diving suits they were able to leave the ship and walk about on the bottom of the sea.They visited a graveyard of sunken ships, saw many strange monsters as well as many beautiful fish in the great depths to which they sunk.…Cited from Five Thousand Miles Underground, by Roy Rockwood

Tom telephoned, as he saw Koku grasp a chain, evidently with the object of hoisting himself up on deck by the simple method of going up hand over hand.He could easily do this by adjusting the air pressure inside his diving suit to make himself more buoyant.…Cited from Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton

Then the party proceeded slowly to the ship.Little time was lost by each one in divesting himself of his diving suit as soon as they had left the water chamber.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood

The two men thus designed and patented their "Rouquayrol-Denayrouze diving suit" in 1864.This would be the first diving suit that could supply air to the diver on demand.In the same year, the Imperial French Navy created a similar device.…

The sharks floated lazily downward as if they knew they had the diggers at their mercy.To run and escape was impossible, for no one could run hampered by the weight of water and his diving suit.One of the terrible fish opened its mouth wider and, with a flirt of its tail aimed straight for the professor.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood

Mr. Damon caught some large lobsters, of which he was very fond, or, rather, to be more correct, the lobsters caught him.When he entered the diving chamber there were four fine ones clinging to different parts of his diving suit.…Cited from Tom Swift & his Submarine Boat, by Victor Appleton

"We will venture out now in our diving suits and see what sort of a place we are in."Soon the adventurers were arrayed in the heavy suits.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood

If required more than one diving suit extension strap piece can be added to the standard watchstrap.With increasing depth and rising water pressure the (sleeved) wrist of a diver is exposed to compression effects that have a shrinking effect on the wrist circumference.…

An early example was the Sladen suit, where the entry tunnel was at the navel.The Louisiana-based dry suit company still makes a "historical" diving suit of that kind.Another type of entry featured a rubber tunnel that protruded through a normal cloth zipper.…

"Can't you use the special diving suits that you always used to carry?" the financial manager wanted to know.Cited from Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton

Using microelectronic components, he was able to reduce all the units to amazingly small size.Next, Tom began tailoring himself a completely new skin-diving suit.Mask, ion-drive jet, and the various hydrolung units were molded into the plastic, with no loose wires or tubes showing.…Cited from Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung, by Victor Appleton

Of course a man can go down to a greater depth in a thick iron diving bell than he can in a diving suit.Cited from Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton

Yorke nodded and remained on deck beside Mart, while the others went down the ladder to the landing with Jerry.Here the two diving suits had been laid out that morning, together with the wooden box containing the pumps.The hose and lifelines had already been connected, and all was prepared for a descent.…Cited from The Pirate Shark, by Elliott Whitney

My diving suit removed, I went with him to the lounge.Cited from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

"Oh, why didn't I bring my gun along!" thought Andy regretfully.His hand dropped to his side and his fingers came in contact with a big knife in the belt of the diving suit.Here was a weapon he had forgotten all about.…Cited from Under the Ocean to the South Pole, by Roy Rockwood